Collection Contents

Family History

Scope and Content Note

Series I, Family History, contains a small amount of biographical and family information on Hall's family as well as some
biographical information on Steele's family, who's father was a partner in the J.P. Morgan firm.

Box 1: 1

Family history information, n.d

Clippings, Reviews and Programs

Scope and Content Note

Series II, Clippings Reviews and Programs, contains newspaper clippings of reviews of their performances and programs for
their concerts.

Box 1: 2

Clovis-Steele clippings, 1930s

Box 7: 2-3

Oversize clippings and reviews, 1930s

Box 1: 3

Clovis Steele Concert Programs, 1930s

Box 1: 4

Other concert programs, 1930s

Photographs

Scope and Content Note

Series III, Photographs, is primarily photographs of productions of operettas that Clovis performed in New York. The collection
includes one box of publicity photos for the productions, including photos for the first staging of Ernest Trow Carter's Blonde
Donna, or The Fiesta of Santa Barbara. There are also some photos of their European tours, publicity photos for the Four Bachelors
and later snapshots of Clovis after moving to Santa Barbara with his partner Charles Lee and also with friends, including
Lotte Lehmann.

Box 1: 6

Clovis in Omaha, 1920s

Box 1: 7

Anne-Marie Schoen Rene, 1920s

Box 1: 8

Steele Family and House, 1920s

Box 1: 9

Snapshots of HC and ES, 1930s

Box 1: 10

Snapshots of HC and Charles Lee, 1970s

Box 1: 13

Snapshots of HC and Lotte Lehmann in Badgastein, 1965

Box 1: 12

Tour Photographs, 1930s

Box 1: 12

Recording Session, n.d.

Box 2: 1-2

Four Bachelors publicity photos, 1920s

Box 2: 2

Hall Clovis publicity photos, 1930s

Box 7: 4

HC Oversise publicity photos by George Maillard Kesslere, n.d.

Box 2: 6-9

Clovis-Steele, 1930s

Box 7: 5

Clovis-Steele publicty photos, n.d.

Box 2: 10

The Beggar Student, 1920s

Box 2: 11

Blonde Donna, 1920s

Box 2: 12

Chocolate Soldier, 1930s

Box 2: 13

Marriage of Figaro, 1930s

Box 2: 14

Orpheus in Hades, 1930s

Box 2: 15

La Vie Parisienne, 1930s

Box 2: 16

Waltz Dream, 1930s

Box 2: 17

Unknown production, 1930s

Box 2: 17

Publicity photos of others, 1930s

Box 2: 17

Misc Photos, 1930s

Scores

Scope and Content Note

Series IV, Scores, includes manuscripts scores of pieces the duo commissioned from several composers, including Six Scottish
Songs and Three Shakespeare Duets by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, four Elegies Darius Milhaud, commissioned arrangements of
negro spirituls by H.T. Burleigh, Four Chinese Lyrics by Jeno Takacs and several songs by Katherine Ruth Heyman and Fannie
Charles Dillon. The collection includes the manuscripts, usually the full score, a vocal score and a set of parts for most
of the works. Some pieces, including works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Burleigh and Heyman are autograph manuscripts, others are
in the hand of copyists but are usually have a written dedication to the duo. There is also a collection of arrangements they
had commissioned and a folder of published sheet music signed by the composers to the duo.